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• Bookmark ‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists –…

  Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse” of civilisation, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points…

  June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

  This post is a list of essays and articles covering climate and ecological breakdown from various perspectives, including how these overlapping crises may induce collapse of industrial civilisation as we know it. This is companion piece to my…

  January 28 2019, 9:37am | Comments

• Bookmark BBC - Future - How Western civilisation could collapse

  The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning by economic growth.

  April 24 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

  August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Books on Food and its relation to Colonialism/Imperialism Are there any good books telling the story of imperialism/colonialism through food? Since reading Guns, Germs and Steel many years ago I have been fascinated with the origins of world food, especially when it highlights untold histories of civilisation. This article on 'How…

  July 13 2016, 5:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Why our imagination for alien life is so impoverishe...

  It astonishes me how much we seem to know about aliens. They build technology-driven civilisations and pilot spaceships across the galaxy. They create energy-harvesting structures around their stars. They beam interstellar…

  February 18 2016, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and life | New Scientist

  The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

  October 27 2015, 5:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and life - environment -…

  The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

  June 11 2015, 2:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Sign in to read: Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and…

  The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Searching for the ruins of alien civilisations – Paul Gilster – Aeon

  ‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ says Ozymandias’s ruined statue in the desert of Shelley’s imagination.

  September 13 2013, 12:12pm | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the Internet/Web I am looking for examinations of the Internet and World Wide Web that use the structure and/or history of the city as a metaphor. I'm afraid I have no original example of this phenomenon to kick things off. I have this image in…

  April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of Our Species

  "If there has been no spiritual change of kind / Within our species since Cro-Magnon Man . . ." The poet Louis MacNeice was voicing a commonplace that was accepted by…

  June 16 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

• Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

  August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark If zombies actually existed

  If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

  August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

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• Bookmark ‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists –…

  Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse” of civilisation, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points…

  June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

  This post is a list of essays and articles covering climate and ecological breakdown from various perspectives, including how these overlapping crises may induce collapse of industrial civilisation as we know it. This is companion piece to my…

  January 28 2019, 9:37am | Comments

• Bookmark BBC - Future - How Western civilisation could collapse

  The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning by economic growth.

  April 24 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

  August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Books on Food and its relation to Colonialism/Imperialism Are there any good books telling the story of imperialism/colonialism through food? Since reading Guns, Germs and Steel many years ago I have been fascinated with the origins of world food, especially when it highlights untold histories of civilisation. This article on 'How…

  July 13 2016, 5:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Why our imagination for alien life is so impoverishe...

  It astonishes me how much we seem to know about aliens. They build technology-driven civilisations and pilot spaceships across the galaxy. They create energy-harvesting structures around their stars. They beam interstellar…

  February 18 2016, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and life | New Scientist

  The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

  October 27 2015, 5:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and life - environment -…

  The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

  June 11 2015, 2:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Sign in to read: Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and…

  The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Searching for the ruins of alien civilisations – Paul Gilster – Aeon

  ‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ says Ozymandias’s ruined statue in the desert of Shelley’s imagination.

  September 13 2013, 12:12pm | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the Internet/Web I am looking for examinations of the Internet and World Wide Web that use the structure and/or history of the city as a metaphor. I'm afraid I have no original example of this phenomenon to kick things off. I have this image in…

  April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of Our Species

  "If there has been no spiritual change of kind / Within our species since Cro-Magnon Man . . ." The poet Louis MacNeice was voicing a commonplace that was accepted by…

  June 16 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

• Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

  August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark If zombies actually existed

  If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

  August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

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